Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 30 Nov 2012

Culture Secretary Maria Miller has said "the gauntlet has been thrown down" to the press to show how it would regulate itself without the need for Parliament to legislate. Yesterday, Lord Justice Leveson called for a new independent press regulator to be backed up with a change in the law. Victims of the press, led by Steve Coogan, accused David Cameron of a betrayal for indicating legislation was unnecessary.

The UN General Assembly voted yesterday to upgrade the Palestinians to 'non-member observer state' status despite strong opposition from the US and Israel. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas called the upgrade "a birth certificate of the reality of a State of Palestine", but the Israeli UN ambassador said it pushed the peace process "backwards".

Brazil's football manager Luiz Felipe Scolari has insulted the country's bankers on his first day in the job by saying that any players in his squad who can’t take the pressure should "go and work in the Bank of Brazil". Bankers' union Contraf said that more than 1,000 financial sector employees leave their jobs for health reasons every month, adding: "We hope that he [Scolari] is not so out of date about football as he is about work in banks."

The makers of a porn movie inspired by 'Fifty Shade of Grey' have been sued by the Hollywood studio that owns the film rights to the books. Universal Studios has filed a copyright lawsuit against Los Angeles-based Smash Pictures, the company behind 'Fifty Shades of Grey: A XXX Adaptation'. Universal claims the adult film is a "rip-off, pure and simple".

Melting of polar ice sheets has added 11mm to global sea levels over the past two decades, the journal Science reports. More than 20 polar research teams combined forces to measure the ice in Greenland and Antarctica to produce the most definitive assessment so far. It means ice melt has caused about one-fifth of the rise in ocean levels since 1992.